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Nutrition Basics for Athletes

Aug 20, 2018 | Blog

Nutrition Basics for Sports Nutrition This podcast offered by renowned sports nutritionist Nancy Clark, RD., is an excellent, grounded source of information. She simplifies the increasing complex world of sports nutrition into basics that work. Nancy says that a...

New Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher

Aug 3, 2018 | Blog, Mindfulness, Self-Compassion

Kristy is a new family doctor in Nanaimo with a strengths based, wellness oriented, trauma informed approach. She trained specifically with a focus on Indigenous health. Kristy took our 8 week Mindful Self-Compassion Training a few years ago, worked the practices into...

How are you doing? What do you need?

Jul 23, 2018 | Blog, Health, Meditations, Mindfulness, Self-Compassion

Checking in’ is a simple mindfulness practice that can help us start to cultivate a kind and loving relationship with ourselves. Try setting a lovely chime on your phone for every hour during the day as a reminder to check in with yourself. Choose a sound that...

Forgiveness Practice

Jun 18, 2017 | Blog, Health, Inspiration, Mindfulness

Like many of us, I too have someone in my life I am having trouble forgiving. I do realize that this block to forgiveness is not serving me any longer. That resentment actually hurts me. And although I will certainly never condone bad behaviour, and I am clear that I...

A Natural Anti-Depressant that Works

Jun 14, 2016 | Blog, Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, Uncategorized

Dr. Elisha Stein studies depression and has found that a depressed brain has significantly more activity in the right prefrontal cortex than the left prefrontal cortex.The right side is associated with avoidance, negative emotions, and stuckness while the left side is...

Kindfulness

Jun 12, 2016 | Blog, Eating Challenges, Health, Mindfulness, Nutrition, Self-Compassion

Mindfulness practice helps us become more aware of what we are experiencing, while we are experiencing it. So we can start to observe ourselves when we are feeling different emotions and reactions and learn how not to react in the moment. It helps if we can do this...